fbsd simply rules for server environment the only reason I’m not using fbsd is because there’s better hardware support in Linux. Things like my wacom tablet only has Windows & Linux drivers :( While the above reason prevents me from using fbsd for desktop purpose… for some others, fbsd is enough and has very good features tailored to servers. So …

It took me a while to get internet on Linux… I needed to set up PPPoE what you need to do on Gentoo is recompile kernel with pppoe support, then install this: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/rp-pppoe/ it should already be in portage though :) gotta love ports (FreeBSD) or it’s variant - portage (Gentoo) :D …

imagine all your 386, 486, Pentium 4, etc working together to give you ultra super powerful machine! not sure if it’s true, the guy said Matrix was rendered on FreeBSD Clusters rendering farm is clusters check out this link about Clusters shown on TechTV. watch the video and look out for those cool FreeBSD horns ;) …

I wrote my first program on FreeBSD!!! I miss ObjectBar on windows… it’s a program that allows me to popup a window showing me all currently running programs and a set of shortcuts that I often use this is extrememly powerful and adds to my productivity I looked around on google to see if GNOME panel can show/hide depending on …

Intense side-scrolling action! :D thnx to Johnny Yip (who’s high addicted to Abuse) that told me about this game ;) I was browsing through my FreeBSD ports collection for games, hoping to find Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 to test my ATI card… Johnny saw Abuse and immediately got excited :) screenshot: visit: http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~trandor/abuse/ After compiling the source… I still …

need another reason why use FreeBSD? or *BSD? Netcraft.com has statistics on top hosting providers. In June, the top 5 hosts were all occupied by companies running FreeBSD. In July, 5 out of the top 10 runs FreeBSD and 7/top13 runs FreeBSD. FreeBSD has “The Power to Serve”! Not only that, it’s great for home usage! While considering alternatives to …

Ooo! check out my GNOME desktop running on FreeBSD after trying so many DE and WM I am going to stick with GNOME now see screenshot [here] …

In order to have numlock enabled automatically after your window manager loads, follow the steps below. This works for any WM, even though KDE provides this functionality already.

save the code below as numlock.c #include int main(void) { Display* disp = XOpenDisplay(NULL); if (disp == NULL) return 1; XTestFakeKeyEvent(disp, XKeysymToKeycode(disp, …
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